Editor & Executive Director, NetFamilyNews.org 
Co-director, ConnectSafely.org

Anne Collier's NetFamilyNews.org is the digital "community newspaper" of the tech-parenting and online-safety community - the only news service of its kind on the Web. Its "kid-tech news for parents" is designed to empower and educate grownups with the latest information on children's tech interests and practices, as well as their online safety. Anne is also co-director of ConnectSafely.org and co-author of MySpace Unraveled: A Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking (Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA, August 2006).

 Anne is a mom, analyst, children's advocate, and journalist who has worked in media since 1980 - in print and radio and on TV and the Web. She served as a stringer for the Christian Science Monitor in Southeast Asia. She later served as Asia editor; associate producer for MonitorRadio; and Tokyo correspondent and award-winning, Boston-based national correspondent for World Monitor, a nightly TV news program that aired nationwide on The Discovery Channel. In 1995 and '96, she helped launch the Monitor's Web site, CSMonitor.com, heading its editorial staff. In January 1999 she founded Tech Parenting Group, the nonprofit public service that publishes NetFamilyNews.

Anne has been a contributor to Children's Technology Revue magazine and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's NetSmartz.org. In addition to her role on the Advisory Council of the Family Online Safety Institute, she also serves on the Advisory Board of GetNetWise.org, and she works in close association with sister organizations SafeKids.com, Netmom.com, and Childnet International.

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